A Preface on Aims

This book is a unified collection of essays in the rhetoric of the sciences and technologies discussing a multitude of ways of framing and modeling. The book is organized around a set of themes embedded in a listed set of quotes in the appendix that encapsulates my thoughts on simplifying complexity and the consequent oversimplifications of the simplifications made of the apparent complexity.

These essays center on three basic concerns about my own analytic and interpretive methods that I recently developed in reflecting on the complexity that I found in my own experiences in using different frames of knowledge that I have encountered in my overall long life experiences and my sustained inquiries into the methods that I once ...

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